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Thread: Petition: delete old accounts

  1. #11

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    I know this problem

    Still they would loose a lot of potential resubscribers if they bluntly delete accounts (especially at a regular intervall). Just by playing or reading here, you will notice many returners when something big changes (khitai, new game director, turan, 5 years etc.). Those came mainly from the period you want to delete.

    But what they can do, is notify the owners of the old accounts first, set a timer and if they do not resub or log in or the adress is not valid...it gets deleted (or the chars names changed). If the timer is long enough, no one could complain especially if such a measure is announced on the website and forums as well.

    About the names, they can do even more (without such drastic measures). For example change the names adding the typical number codes...

    I am sure, they will come up with something like that when they either merge all servers or do "one server" tech (they will need to do a namecheck routine anyway to avoid trouble and could implement such a name addition/check). And...maybe they already did that?
    Last edited by Kurt2013; 29th May 2013 at 13:54.

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  3. #13

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    TSW has pretty good "naming convention". Wonder if it is possible to "inject" it into AoC.

  4. #14

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    /signed the amount of funny names that are taken and not played are ridiculous
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  5. #15

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    /signed

    Should've been done years ago.

  6. #16

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    No need to delete them. Just let multiples of the same name exist.

  7. #17

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    Rather than deleting toons which would potentially prevent long gone players from coming back another idea might be something like this. Any account that has not been active for more than say 3 years would have all of their toons renamed to a random string of characters. Give each character on that account a free rename.

    This frees up a lot of names (most unsubs happened before ROTGS) and it allows someone that was in the game a while ago to come back and still have their toons. There is a good chance that they would still be able to rename their toons back to what they were.

  8. #18

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    /signed

    Should've been done long ago.

  9. #19

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    Quote Originally Posted by medievalsmith View Post
    Rather than deleting toons which would potentially prevent long gone players from coming back another idea might be something like this. Any account that has not been active for more than say 3 years would have all of their toons renamed to a random string of characters. Give each character on that account a free rename.
    Or simply let the name check at character creation check if the name is taken by a character whose account have been inactive for 3+ years (or whatever limit is chosen) - at that point give the inactive character a new name + free rename and give the name to the new character.

    Thus if a name is never taken there is no need to do any scans at regular intervals or giving out renames which might not have been required. Why do extra work if it is not needed? Better to do any checks on-demand.

  10. #20

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sente View Post
    Or simply let the name check at character creation check if the name is taken by a character whose account have been inactive for 3+ years (or whatever limit is chosen) - at that point give the inactive character a new name + free rename and give the name to the new character.

    Thus if a name is never taken there is no need to do any scans at regular intervals or giving out renames which might not have been required. Why do extra work if it is not needed? Better to do any checks on-demand.
    I like this idea.

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